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12 November 2010

Tech Notes: Pitch Characteristics and the Strike Zone

This is a followup to my post on Beyond the Box Score and the ensuing discussion on the Inside the Book Blog. I ran a logistic regression on the variables listed below on a database comprised of all called pitches from 2009-2010, excluding pitches in which data was not made available in the PFX database. The data was pulled from Darrell Zimmerman's SQL-based PitchFX database.

This post isn't for the faint of heart or for those who aren't familiar with logistic regression, but feel free to chime in if you have a question or an idea.